More on hoarding, giving gifts and how it messes with the economy.

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Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Smart-TVs, Star Wars on Blu-ray, Netflix Updates, Sony Google TV news, and more.

Guest: Scott Wilkinson

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Running time: 1:00:31

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

Most known for his political activism, writing lyrics for the Grateful Dead, his essays on the internet, and founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow, is this week’s guest.

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Running time: 55:12

Current Geek Episode 177: 30 second rule!

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.

Guests: John Kovalic and Ken Denmead

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Running time: 51:04

We have a huge calendar to get through.  Some great books are coming out this month! Plus we wrap up Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer and with all the great conversations on Goodreads, we have a lot to say! Also a fruit fly died in the making of this episode.  He is survived by several thousand other fruit flies.

QUICK BURNS

Book Review: The Man Who Found Zero: Early Science Fiction and Weird Fantasy from The Black Cat, 1896-1915

Twitter’s literary superstar, @MayorEmanuel, will tweet a science fiction short story tomorrow

CALENDAR

9/13/2011 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
9/13/2011 Prospero Regained, L. Jagi Lamplighter
9/13/2011 Highest Frontier, Joan Slonczewski
9/13/2011 How Firm a Foundation, David Weber
9/15/2011 War in Heaven by Gavin Smith
9/15/2011 Briarpatch, Tim Pratt
9/20/2011 Reamde, Neal Stephenson
9/20/2011 Goliath, Scott Westerfeld
9/22/2011 The Islanders by Christopher Priest
9/27/2011 Ganymede, Cherie Priest (Tor)
9/27/2011 The Hum and the Shiver, Alex Bledsoe
9/27/2011 The Immorality Engine by George Mann

BOOK WRAP-UP

Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer

Foreign Language Pet Peeves – Anne

Tech in 20 years – Vladimir

Determinism vs. free will – Josh

TV and Movies

World War Z begins filming in Glasgow – Nick

Star Wars: The Old Republic – Kevin

BARE YOUR SWORD

Hi Tom and Veronica,

Hey where do you get the info for the Calendar segment you have? Is it a website? I looked on Goodreads and didn’t see anything related to that.

This would be a useful site to bookmark.

Thanks,

Jim
From Boston.

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Hi Veronica and Tom,

I recently downloaded the .mobi version of United Moon Colonies from archive.org and was saddened by the formatting. The .mobi file kept all the “”United Moon Colonies”” headers and the pages numbers from the original file. The problem is that they must have been treated as plain text when the original file was converted in .mobi and .epub, so now they pop up right in the middle of sentences.

It really bothered me, I’m a bit OCD-ed sometimes : I like things neat. Because of this and the fact that I am not a big fan of pdf reading on the Kindle, I decided to reformat the whole thing to make it more comfortable for me to read. It took a bit of work but I think I straightened it all out. At least I hope I did, although I’m sure there must be a forgotten line break hidden somewhere.

Anyway, I may not be the only one bothered by the archive.org files, so I thought I’d submit these reformatted .mobi and .epub to you so that you may do with them as you please.

As for the cover, I used the one Sean submitted on the Goodreads thread, credit where credit is due 🙂 It would be easy enough to change it back to the original one if needed.

Anyway, I thought it might interest you and might make the reading more enjoyable for other people. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a Tom Merritt book to read 🙂

Keep up the good work.

Nicolas.

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